I'm absolutely convinced that our Congress, as it presently
exists, is an impediment to rationality, good policy, and the continuation of
the USA as a viable country. They (both parties) thought nothing of spending
their time on "National Nose Zit Day", or even worse! a law that any
idiot can see is unconstitutional, just because it resonates with their equally
ignorant constituency... Anti gay rights
or Flag burning amendment? Do we really want to be just like North Korea and
Iran? And, as for taxes, Federal revenue as a percentage of GNP is projected to
be the lowest it's been since 1950, but we're on the ruinous path to
socialism... apparently just like it happened after WWII.
As my friend summed it up for me: "Remember when
teachers, public employees, Planned Parenthood, NPR and PBS crashed the stock
market, wiped out half of our 401Ks, took trillions in TARP money, and paid almost no taxes? Yeah, me neither." Nope, it was the corporations that spilled oil
in the Gulf of Mexico, all the while giving themselves and their CEOs billions in bonuses, He only left out, “ and
started a war against a country 11,000 miles away because somebody wanted to be
a war time president and his vice president was an oil billionaire.”
Social Security, which had a surplus for the last 60 years
(which congress spent every penny of, on the "budget" and invested
not one cent of), now that it is about to go upside down, is the major threat
to our national budget.
I’m a nut case. I think that the slippery slope of allowing robots to fight our wars is wrong, stupid, immoral, and likely to end up like the Terminator or Battlestar Galatica series. Why not? Doesn't every military, having developed a new better weapon, assume that the enemy will NEVER get it? How many Americans have been killed by the "bad" guys using the weapons we sold them? I don’t see anybody putting toothpaste back into any tubes. Once we screw up, we rarely back up. But now?
Nut job conspiracy birthers forced President Obama to show us his birth certificate and Donald Trump took credit for it. Thank You DonDon! Now we need you to employ your massive intellect and dogged tenacity to confirm the existence of gravity; we don’t want to fly off the planet tomorrow. Can you look into that bear in the woods thing too? And by the way, why do you speak like an eight year old? And the media are dishonest? Says the man that gets his news from "Morning Joe".
According to Republicans (I don’t think I’ll call them
conservatives any more. That passing of
laws about consensual sexual conduct and controlling women’s bodies did it for
me. What is conservative about
government in your bed room?) spending money on
poor people, outside of our country is a bad idea but spending money on
rich people inside the USA, as we have been, is a great idea. The “middle class” in the USA has shrunk
drastically in the last 30 years. And I
still think that the difference between billion$ and trillion$ is a qualitative
not just quantitative point. What tax
payers are spending on Trump Towers in NY would go a long way to doing some real
good. Pick your favorite: veterans, infrastructure,
health care, schools, basic scientific research, how about Flint, Michigan? Right now, Congress as it is presently functioning is the single worst impediment to
the future of our country, they spent million$ voting to repeal the ACA (knowing it was just a show) and on Benghazi, but are letting
Michael Flynn off. As for raising campaign dollar$, the Republicans and their mostly
owned Supreme Court opened that can of worms with Citizens United; hold your
breath till that gets better.
You’ve heard of the theory of an infinite number of
universes, many almost exactly like this one?
You know, with you and me and everything exactly the same except in some
of these universes strange things happen like your toast levitates, or a T-Rex
appears in the NY subway. This explains
Donald Trump. We’re in one of those
universes.
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